Posts Tagged ‘Mexican presidential elections’
Mexican Elections : No Recount for You
8:19 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics| mexico · Comments Off
7 Aug 2006
For those inside and outside of Mexico hoping for a recount of the votes from the July 2nd presidential election, hope is dead. On Saturday Mexico’s top electoral court rejected Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s Democratic Revolution Party’s request for a recount. According to AP:
In Mexico’s central plaza, thousands of protesters watched the session on a huge screen, chanting “Vote by vote!” and drowning out the judges’ statements.
AMLO responded by telling the crowd:
For us, it’s very clear,” he said. “If they refuse a full recount, that’s proof that we won the presidential election…. They may have the money and the power, but we have what’s most important — the people’s support.
It’s very clear that the Mexican court’s decision will help keep alive the image of a corrupt Mexican electoral system with something to hide and that hurts all Mexicans, regardless of party affiliation.
Via / Yahoo! News & the LA Times
Image Via / Columbus Dispatch
Mexican Elections: U.S. Unions Want a Recount
6:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Labor| Politics| mexico · Comments Off
28 Jul 2006
During their 20th Quadrennial Convention yesterday, delegates of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union called for a complete and immediate recount of all the votes cast for President in Mexico’s July 2, 2006 national elections. According to a press release distributed yesterday:
RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum said, the RWDSU represents many workers who are immigrants from Mexico and many of these joined with almost 40 million other Mexicans to vote in the July 2, 2006 elections to choose a new President and Legislature. The RWDSU is a democratic trade union that supports the will of the Mexican people to choose through free elections their representatives in government just as it supports the right of all peoples around the world to democratically elect their own leaders.
I’m not sure how much influence or pressure such a solidarity statement has or will has but it just goes to show how intertwined lives in the U.S. are with Mexican politics.
I woke up this morning and it’s official, with only a 0.57% lead Felipe Calderón of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) has been declared the winner of the Mexican presidential election. But it ain’t over until the fat lady sings her last bolero and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said:
We cannot recognize or accept these results.
AMLO is calling for a rally of his supporters in Mexico City’s vast central square tomorrow. As one supporter of Lopez Obrador was quoted as saying by Reuters:
If a revolution is needed, a revolution there will be.
Via / Reuters
Lopez Obrador is no Al Gore
4 Jul 2006
With the final results of the Mexican presidential election expected as early as tomorrow or as late as the weekend, depending on which news source you read, the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) and their candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, are prepping for the worse by not backing down. As votes continue to be counted and as the gap between Lopez Obrador and Felipe Calderon lessens (with Calderon leading according to sources), an article posted today on AlterNet states:
Lopez Obrador has said he will honor the results of a fair election, even if he loses by one vote. But if history is any lesson, Lopez Obrador is no Al Gore. He won’t walk away from a stolen election without a protest. His political rise has been characterized by having to respond to dirty tricks. And if anyone is justified in being a “firebrand” about stolen elections, it is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Salma Taking Mexican Presidential Candidates to Task
11:56 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| Justice| Women| mexico · Comments Off
29 Jun 2006
Mexican actriz Salma Hayek has teamed up with Human Rights Watch (HRW) and 65 other organizations in Mexico and the U.S, to make a call via an open letter to the presidential candidates in Mexico to make the commitment to “prevent and punish” crimes against women. Mexico is the home of Ciudad Juarez where over the last 13 years, more than 400 women have been murdered or have “disappeared”. Salma said:
It’s outrageous that Mexican women must live afraid of the killers harassing them on the streets.
Tomorrow, June 30, the names of the candidates who made the commitment to fight violence against women will be released so that those going to the polls on Sunday know where the candidates stand. Props to Salma for using her star power to bring attention to the issue of violence against mujeres and for making this an important issue in the upcoming presidential election in Mexico.
Via / Que Pasa
Why We Should Care About the Mexican Election
29 Jun 2006
The answer has nothing to do with immigration (well maybe it does – just a little). According to an article posted at AlterNet, we in the United States could learn a few things from the upcoming Mexican presidential election scheduled to take place this coming Sunday. The three candidates to watch are Andres Manuel López Obrador aka AMLO of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), Felipe Calderón Hinosa, of outgoing Presidente Fox’s National Action Party (PAN), and Robert Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
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